Escalation Governance
Escalation preserves authority under uncertainty.
Escalation exists so sensitive, incomplete, or restricted requests can pause ordinary routing and remain under accountable review.
Escalation triggers
Escalation may be triggered by restricted operational scope, production deployment language, regulated context, incomplete constraints, or authority-sensitive requests.
Governance-sensitive pathways
Governance-sensitive pathways avoid ordinary acceptance patterns and preserve a route for authority intervention or suspension.
Review suspension
A request may be held in governance review when policy signals indicate that ordinary routing would be premature.
Transition blocking
Invalid transitions are blocked server-side. The blocked attempt is retained as an audit event without mutating the request state.
Escalation continuity
Escalated movement remains attached to prior state, next state, route, actor, mutation source, and governance reason.
This doctrine describes public governance posture. It does not expose internal review surfaces, tokens, or operational request records.